If I can give you my 2 cents and say the octagon one is top class maybe make the letters yellow since the other banners have red lettering. Again Showdown awsome job on those banners I love seeing all the different teams. You must be a wizard on the etch-a-scetch? LOL

Yea thats why I switched from the red letters to the gray, I realized I had been going a little crazy with the red letters,lol... I went through a dozen different gradients of colors and the gray stood out the best. Blends best with the red star as well(Unfortunately, I couldnt get a gray star, that was the goal.)
Not too bad for the GIMP program. It seems to do a decent job, no photoshop or illustrator, but it holds its own.